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Kingsway telephone exchange

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Entrance to Kingsway Telephone Exchange 39 Furnival Street (geograph 3983441)
Entrance to Kingsway Telephone Exchange 39 Furnival Street (geograph 3983441)

Kingsway telephone exchange was a Cold War-era hardened telephone exchange underneath High Holborn in London. Initially built as a deep-level air-raid shelter in the early 1940s, it was instead used as a government communications centre. In 1949 the General Post Office (GPO) took over the building, and in 1956 it became the UK termination point for TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable. Closure of the facility began in the 1980s. It was built together with underground exchanges in Birmingham and Manchester, and was originally covered by a D notice

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Kingsway telephone exchange
Holborn, City of London

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Holborn 10-12
EC1N 2LL City of London
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Entrance to Kingsway Telephone Exchange 39 Furnival Street (geograph 3983441)
Entrance to Kingsway Telephone Exchange 39 Furnival Street (geograph 3983441)
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